Opinion Journal: Why Selma Isn’t Ferguson

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civil rights leaders marched in some over the weekend ... to commemorate the fiftieth anniversary of bloody Sunday ... Manhattan Institute Senior Fellow and Wall Street Journal contributor Jason Riley joins days and you've got an op ed ... in this morning's paper you say ... that the president drew the wrong lessons from some awhile ... well I think that this was ... an occasion to mark a significant accomplishment ... these people these very brave individuals fifty years ago I ... knew that they were going to to to get a forceful push back from a lot ... of stories of the time when they decide on the sports they did it anyways ... and it was of a religious occasion to mark that sort of bravery he tried to drop ... Mar modern a political issues into the discussion he invoked Ferguson ... a number of times you talk about overcrowded prisons and so forth ... and his real intent there ... was to suggest that ... the problems black States today are similar to the problems they faced fifty years ago when the sparks took place ministers ... ridiculous on its face coming from but twice the like don't let ... this what's wrong with talking about overcrowded prisons while the problem with overcrowded prisons have to do with black criminal behavior which he did mention ... that I've had been one of the people I mentioned ... in the op ed that I wrote that the mayor of someone who was interviewed recently on the radio when asked about ... problems facing the city to which the eighty percent black and he said ... he'll back in nineteen sixty five we did have segregation ... we did have the squatter problem ... that we have today is that we even have jobs available this in the city but the people don't have the skills to qualify for the stock is in the crowd contrasting this with my brother's keeper for ... no I think the the the fifth of the president I think who is ... in takes every opportunity ... to play to his base even if it means marking indication what the one he was marking ... up and in some over the weekend ... you also quoted Shelby Steele ... but he's a conservative scholar at the Hoover Institution ... he is referenced in before adjacent ... I feel like they just aren't that many black conservatives out there talking about black behavior why is that ... um well you're right there are not doing it um ... it's not Tom gonna win you any popularity contests typically coming ... from Obama supporters and those on the left who believe that ... there's a government solution for every problem ... that blacks face today will point to try to make in the app that ... is that the civil rights establishment doesn't want to talk about the gains the plaques making ... before this landmark Sobel rights legislation passed in increasing the level of twenty years of schooling ... adjoining the professions and so forth ... there were tremendous gains being made back then and then and instead all the credit to begin to see that goes ... to aam what came out after the post sixties of black America and so forth and that's just I think um um misinterpretation of Black history How you wanna read more about it said its new Pope is please stop helping us ... Manhattan's to Jason Riley ... thanks much for thinking that's ...